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Bug 257002 (CVE-2008-5987) - <media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3 Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2008-5987)
Summary: <media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3 Untrusted search path vulnerability (CVE-2008-5987)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2008-5987
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep...
Whiteboard: B2 [glsa]
Keywords:
Depends on: CVE-2008-5983
Blocks:
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Reported: 2009-01-30 22:32 UTC by Stefan Behte (RETIRED)
Modified: 2020-04-10 11:36 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2009-01-30 22:32:25 UTC 
CVE-2008-5987 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-5987):
  Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Python interface in eog
  2.22.3, and possibly other versions, allows local users to execute
  arbitrary code via a Trojan horse Python file in the current working
  directory, related to a vulnerability in the PySys_SetArgv function
  (CVE-2008-5983).
Comment 1 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-30 23:41:04 UTC 
I am not sure whether this bug is being tracked upstream. Please see the blocker for details and a patch example.
Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-24 17:27:00 UTC 
2.22.3-r3 is in the tree.
Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 17:10:04 UTC 
Arches, please test and mark stable:
=media-gfx/eog-2.22.3-r3
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86"
Comment 4 Markus Meier gentoo-dev 2009-02-25 20:07:07 UTC 
amd64/x86 stable
Comment 5 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 14:48:53 UTC 
alpha/ia64/sparc stable

can't do arm since it needs gnome-2.22 stable
Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 16:49:02 UTC 
Stable for HPPA.
Comment 7 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-26 17:35:36 UTC 
ppc64 done
Comment 8 Brent Baude (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-18 19:09:03 UTC 
ppc done
Comment 9 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-04-06 11:39:26 UTC 
GLSA filed.
Comment 10 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-04-06 22:10:03 UTC 
GLSA 200904-06